The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-28
SOUTHERN ELECTIONS.
Senator Chandler. of New Hamp-
shire, Stirs Up the Dry
Bones in the Senate.
A Bill to Regulate the Holding Of
Congressional Elections in Ger.
tain Sou. bern States
South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi,
and Louisiana Singled Out-Ob-
ject Of the Measure.

Washington telegram 30 Chicago Inter Ocean.
Senator w. +. Chandler will call the at
tention Of the Senate ut an early date TO q
measure to which he has given much
thought, the object of which is to provide
Tor tree election in the Southern States.
This he proposes to do by the enactment
o law, bill for which he has just in
troduced In the Senate, the nature Of
which will fully appear from the explana-
lion by Mr.. Chandler himself in the fol-
lowing interview. He said:
There ought to be no more delay in
making the attempt thus to control the
election of Representatives. in Congress,
and, if the attempt is not successful, to
put the responsibility where il belongs.
see no reason why the Republicans of the
Senate should not be willing to pass the
bill which have presented, or some other
bill of q similar character. If it does not
pass the House it will be the fault of the
Democratic party. If the South. with thi ty-
eight electoral votes and thirty eight Con-
gressional votes based upon the colored
population, is determined that negroes
shall not vote, the South at least ought to
be forced TO confine its suppression of the
suffrage to state officers. BY "a Just and
proper amendment of the Constitution the
power OF Congress over Presidential cleo
tors might be made the same tina. IL now is
over the election of Representatives liz
Congr, SO. Then the Southern suppress
sion Of the suffrage would be limited in its
effects to the States; it would not falsify
the national results"
"You maintain that, under existing cir
cumstances, the real will Of the people in
some OF the Southern States is not repre-
scented in the House Of Representatives or
in the Electoral CollegeY"
That tee delibe ate determination has
been reached by the Democratic leaders in
some OF the Southern States to maintain
white line domination, 10 suppress the col
ored vote, and to keep the political power
OF those States in white Democratic hands
without regard to the large Democratic
majorities is now very evident. This is
not disavowed, but rather asserted by the
Democratic leaders OF those States. The
avowal is that the whites I'll control tho Be
States at all hazards; that far and liberal
treatment of Republican voters shall not
be allowed, and that this suppression OF
the colored suffrage and of Republican
suffrage is TO be CARED ont in defiance OF
and without the slightest regard for North
ern sent ment on the subject. This avowal
ought to arouse sentiment OF Northern
indignation which would sweep the Demo-
Gratis out of power in every State in the
North. II such sentiment does not ex-
lat, certainly the Nortn ought TO have q
sufficient regard for material and business
interests not 10 allow the Presidency, the
control of the National Government and OF
the House Of Representatives to be made
Democratic by the thirty eight Southern
votes based upon Republican population,
and to see the votes OF substa tally The
solid South cast in hostility to and in de-
struction Of the tariff Legislation upon
which our material prosperity depends"